The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1918, Page 4

STAR—-SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1918. PAGE 4 AR THE SEATTLE ST 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union 8¢, MEMBEN OF SCrIrYs NORTUWRST LEAGUR oF NKWSrarkns Telearaph News Service of (he United Prees Association Batered at Seattia, Wash, Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter ieee ~ Mail out of city, éde per month; & montha, $1.18, @ months $26 ey malk “year, $3.50. Ry ier, city, 80¢ @ month Pebliaked Daity by The Star Publishing Phone Main 00. Private!) exchange connecting all departmemta, Shall Seattle seen governmen ald | in providing id be a b he workers and the government? Opinion in Seattle ts keenly the blem Staten ship Initiat! of its own Admiral Jellicoe, former chief of Britain's + staff, secs the ending of the submarine menace about made loans to war workers at 4 per ent in some Eastern towns, and August. Do your part. Buy thrift stamps. chané. te a bonaee ie aonewens | providing for $50,000,000 to be ap | an oe eo tated for the purposes of prop a anit 5 ly housing shipyard workers. . to share in this fund There has been altogether too much wordy mystery| The Seattle shipping committee, i i | jauthorized by ne ation Chamber d not enough action about this proposition of getting out jas poem peice aa eg - fete ington spruce for government airplane construction, A apn " mittees, each representing different | Whether the sharp indictment of George S. Long of |acuruacs on these matters Wants U.S. Ald at the senate committee hearing was justified or remains to be seen. The one undisputed fact that} One mw the sw committees, of out from the whole mess is this: UNCLE SAM | which ths - “ xi presibent of] ‘ S NOT BEEN GETTING THE SPRUCE nage sneer ens cred gg eager 5 Long, in his letter to R. B. Howe of the 4 reraft board public Tuesday, reluctantly declines or provisionally ming work » by toa Seattle. | pts, as you read it, a position on the Pacific coast com-| The other committes, of whieh erat the board because of his connection with the tim-|G., Musce.of ths law, frm of . la chairman, believes that govern My own conscientious belief is—that I could do just/ment aid whould be sought | much good on the outside as I could on the committee,| tT» Vetter committes acting on I know full well that I would do just as much work ce "ine “aoaeation ~ the outside as if I were on the committee,” he writes. agiand ami France, have outlined All right, Mr. Long, now let’s see you do it. Here's |, procedure for the permanent housing of the workers right now to clear yourself of the unsavory oygeBy can be answered only by deeds. Frankly, *"™men' hg ; | Believe you can do it splendidly. AS jae nisl SEE Here are the words of your own letter, Mr. Long: |.¢ a’ non-profitmaking corporation “IT am the general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Tim-|to nandie such ints as patriotic cit Co. and personally have exclusive charge of the selling | sens shall lint with the company all timber and timber lands on the Pacific coast and in) Property owners who will do so) vicinity of the Columbia river, Willapa harbor and By harbor. This company owns a very large amount interest to rua ‘timber lands, and POSSIBLY OWNS AT LEAST ONE-| ‘THIRD OF ALL THE SPRUCE STUMPAGE THAT IS ADJACENT TO THESE HARBORS IN THE STATE OF} WASHINGTON.” Is this vast amount of es stumpage owned by your! pany to be used to win the war—or is it to be held for} for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.? uickly to supply America's cry-) Or is it to remain rooted thru gev | are the & or wale low figure, and with at not higher than 4 per cent The corporation will negotiate the salen to the shipyard workers and will construct the houses, according to such plans as the worker may, in each cane, select. After thin, th worker may, thru the corporation, | secure a loan from the federal gov ernment of 60 per cent of the value) of the property, with interest at 4 fi Is it to be gotten out need for airplane stock? in the ground? It’s ly up to you, Mr. Long. You admit it. s The old adage that “actions speak louder than words’ holds true. *The place for you to begin, if you would prove your- 1 is to urge lumbermen to grant the eight-hour day better working conditions. ’ | Get the loggers back into the woods and stop this talk “unfair discrimination Construction First ‘The first payments by the worker | on his new home are to be applied to pay the expenses of the company in constructing the house. After| this is cleared up, the payments are to-go to the land owner, who retain | title subject to the government mortgage. The corporation would be officered by patriotic citia © donate ser eee 6 & happy says ai ing, Puffed-up Feet and Corns or Callouses Clarence L. Reames, Portland district attorney, is com=| houses | a man dealing with private owner oy Retry Scheidemann, famous leader of the Ma-|this ncheme would be 4 per cent lowered, d human beings.” land brought to a minimum or war is left, not to the rulers, but tO} ment was sah die. tibet, who sacrifice, suffer and die in wars. _ —— Whatever the cause, whoever holds the power of de- But, if we do have more wars, men will wage them fortifications and cities to pieces. 4 foot trouble.” Tey include the right of the people who bleed and starve to say tee The overhead, clerk hire, ete would be met by adding thie amount i Save Interes can hope to secure is 7 per cent. in the reichstag: Also, they state, thru the wholesale | here will always be wars and the only question is| Purchase of lumber, plumbing os It is the h of humanity, and one of the highest aims| “This plan would secure America, that this war will kill war. It will, if the de-|"4 contented — workers people Without | — ‘ th location of the decision, the peoples of this garth Ty] as well pack up their visions of democracy and try war is simply men turning upon and ery! them- like mad beasts, and socialists are the last folks on beasts. The beastly inventions produced in this war not be discarded any quicker than gunpowder was | There is no compfomise with the spirit of war. The rulers of the European peoples failed to ward off when and for what they shall bleed and starve. m grant that this war establish that right beyond |to the selling prices of the various/ out that the lowest rate of interest | ° r men are to conduct them like beasts or like civ-|'wre froutyt mrt. Gat as to | Hughes, “and, x the govern ’ th who can consistently take any other view of it. ‘1 ed when it was discovered that it would blow men, is world calamity. Genuine socialism and genuine democ- or reversal. If it does, there will not always be Seattle boy who has taken a liking to sleeping on the street was disturbed by police. Professional jealousy? 4 Good-bye, sore feet, burning feet, b? picpinentimesanemieione swollen feet, tender feet, tired) ee ° ° . feet. It Is a Big Victory ischdina eicne, allasion, " - ‘ ~ fons and raw spots. No more shoe It was American mechanics against German, and) terns. ng “more limping with America won. It was the spirit of construction against the | pain or drawing up your face in| spirit of destruction, and constructiveness won. It was a@jagony. “Tiz" in magical, acts right ‘conflict between American and Teuton brains, and the|off. “Tix” draws out all the potson- ous exudations which puff up the 4 shoes. Use “Tix” and forget your | When Uncle Sam seized the great fleet of German ves-|toot misery. Ah! how comfortable | ‘gels found in his harbors, he discovered that their German | your feet feel 3 s had mutilated or destroyed the machinery. The| “et ® 25cent box of “Tis s laughed and said it would be years before the in-| Store” pont cutter Have wand tte engines and other parts would perform their func-}feet, giad feet, feet that never But American engineers and mechanics went to|ewell, never hurt, never get tired, | They invented new methods of welding by which|A year's foot comfort guaranteed damaged engines and other heavy parts could be re- paired as they lay in the ships. Tests show that these re-| paired parts are stronger than originally and that the ships ' are making better time than ever before, and every one "of these ships is now carrying American fighters to France by the thousands. We are the greatest people on earth, at anything. And we know it. While the medals and honors are being passed out, we _ should not overlook the brainy Americans who have put 600,000 tons of German shipping to fighting Germany, in spite of Germany's dirtiest. a now department s RABY | Early Showing of Spring Materials and Styles 425 Union St. | You may not have to pay a ready-to-serve charge for your gas, but you'll have to plank down the two-bits, just the same. Keep Your Liberty Bonds Many Seattleites bought Liberty bonds on the advice of The Star. If you will accept our advice again, it is this: Don’t exchange your Liberty bonds for unknown securities, Securities are being offered in exchange for Liberty bonds which are fine examples of the engraving art, but other- wise worthless. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo urges that you do not exchange your Liberty bonds for any securities, known or unknown. It is not possible to have a sounder invest- ment than a Liberty bond. Hang on to yours! | Dads have a chance to prove real friends to their sons next week by beginning a comradeship that should all weeks. DEPOSITS in this bank are GUARDIAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK Corner First Ave. and Colum- bia Union Lab Use “Tiz” for Aching, Burn- |’ “Sure! | wee TIZ’ | every time for any | ; Pe ; Tries to » EC. chairman of cor Hughes, Solve Housing Problem || Shall U.S. Build Workers’ Homes Here? or Leaders Favor Th | | | | | laboring is Solution ion in wimiliar to that of Libe vans, The KOv ernme aunt private capital, they before drawing from funds tha ght be used for war needs. That is, the idea of the $50,000,000 fund in to 1 © workers in mall towns private re sources are insufficient to meet the demand. Whereas, they state, Beat tle has capital enough to take eare of ite housing pr n Representatives of the shipyard workers are In favor of government aid, but do not eve the Hughes plan in satiefactorily worked out in all of its deta 1 plan that they will recom mend, they nay, will be based on nome such scheme as the Hughes plan, however Architects on dob William Pigott shipping board, saye that Se will be given «4 chance to meet the housing problem before the government tr will that rents car modelir ental Jeounty-city bu and make remodeling plans free |mupervise the actual work price The shipping committee and the workers’ representatives i together almost dally and it is believed that some plan will be reached, matiafactory to # majority, within the next week When such « plan is drawn up, it will be submitted to the shipping board with a recommendation for fa verably action under direction of the National Chamber of Commerce. they would do their best for the govern: Advocates of private bulléing op pose this plan. In the first place, they may, government intervention would arive the chief incentive of }low prices, competition, from the! field. Secondly, according to them all owners who build in lots of 15 houses or more, secure wholesale prices, and so there would be no| | saving there j Exhaust Private POLYGAMY NOT BY THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES — Continued ——— _* From Page One! have more wives than he can support. The rights of the wives shall be equal. Every marriage is for a Ifetime. And so on. ‘There ia another group. Professor Thiele, medical director of the schools at Chemnita, which be Neves it is important that more should be done for the living today and less for those yet unborn Famine-dropay, hunger-typhold, tu berculosis—aill due to lack oF proper food—have seized upon thousands of children in Germany and threaten to wreck their health permanently, if more is not done for their relief. h true German thoroness, Dr. has reduced the situation to Health records for 600 chil- ve been kept thruout the pe ALMOST WITH ‘EPTION, THE CHIL THER HAVE LOST HAVE FAILED TO AINS THAT SHOULD INCREASES IN Thiet war of weight,” said Dr. Thiele, in a medical report, supposed to circulate among doctors only, “is Jue, of course, to the fact that foods to which the children have been ac customed have disappeared from their moals.” ftyaix per cent of the children were below normal, judged by the standard prevailing before the war Ten per cent were pronouncedly ane mic. There was an increase of 4 per cent among the tubercular Suicides Increase In common with other observers Dr. Thiele points out that the chief sufferers are the children of men of fixed pay—nschool masters, university instructors, government clerks These men have had no increase in pay to meet advancing prices, and consequently their standard of living now is lower than that of the skilled mechanic, who, being very in demand, has had many incre svICID HAVE INCREAS. ED IN NUMBER BY 16 PER € T IN G MANY SINCE THE WAR BEGAN. FACT 18 GIVING THE GER- MAN GOVERNMENT SOME CONCERN. Three out of every four suicides are women, according to the latest figures. In most cases the CIDES have been WOM left en. tirely alone in the wortd thru the loms of fathers, sons or brothers. Despondency Grows The kingdom of Saxony has al ways led the world in the number of suicides, and the largest increases are now reported from that section. ete | Germany, as a whole, has been third | ng nations in the number of sui ‘This proneness to despondency in Saxony ond other German states haw been counted on by the allies as like- be a factor in determining the ne of the war Once there is fighting on Ger. man territory and the utter hopelessness of the situation is borne in upon the German peo. ple, this tendency Is expected to start # crack in the morale that will extend the full length of the empire, Newspapers of the larger cities are filled with advertisements of women offering marriage. Note this advertisement from the Berlin Tagliche Rundschau: Christmas Wish: Two young ladies of wociety, charming ap- pearance, blond, brunet, ami- able, highly accomplished, wish to make acquaintance of dis. tinguished professor or mer- chant with a view to marriage, No doubt each lady desires a hus band to herself, tho the fact is not made clear in the advertisement, UL | FROWNED ON ‘The war has opened up many ave nace of employment heretofore closed to women in Germany. One Kerlin paper devotes half a page to advertisements for women clerks, | wtenographers, bookkeepers, cash jlers, etc, There are also many ad led by | Yertinements of women doctors and Cormick women lawyers OLD FOLKS NEED “CASCARETS”” FOR _—_UVER, BOWELS | Salts, calomel, pills act on bowels like pepper acts | in nostrils. Enjoy life! Don’t stay bilious, | sick, headachy and constipated. Get a 10-cent box now Most old people must give to the bowels some regular help, else they suffer from constipation. The con-| jon is perfectly natural, It is| |Just as natural as it ts for old peo- | |ple to walk slowly, For age ts| |never so active as youth. The} | muscles are less elastic. And the bowels are muscles So all did people need Cascarets. | One might as well refuse to aid weak eyes with glasses as to neg |tect this gentle ald to weak bowels. | |The bowels must be kept active. | This is important at all ages, but | [never so much as at fifty | | “Age ts not a time for harsh phys. | l'on, Youth may occasionally whip the bowels into activity, But a lash can't be used every day, What jthe bowels of the old need is a gentle and natural tonic. One |that can be constantly used with jout harm, The only such tonic is |Cascarets, and they cost only 10 cents per box at any drug store.| They work while you sleep, | Thoroughness | aracterizes our methods in transaction, and our cus- corded every cour- | ie with sound busl- | ject to Check Ai ‘ordially Invited. bs Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. 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T. writes that it In easy to see hy the landlords raise the rents Fivery one else has too much to do to raine enough for meals. eee “In the beginning of this war men were killed by thousands, a million falling on both «ides at Verdun from lnck of material,” Congressman Mo- maid. — ClevMand Piain Dealer Which prompta W. 8. F. to ask, "What would have happened to both sides if they bad had material?” eee WHERE'S HOOVER? What's better these cold nights for supper than getting on the out side of a couple of pig feet and one more, cooked in butter, with a schooner of frozen sweet milk and a corn hoecake crumbled in it?— Winchester (Tenn) Herald. oe AN WY } WY ff hig LETS CALL T DAYS Prnring ” TH ° FLICKERIN LIGHT, . We see by a Wichita, Kas., paper that Bert Bean was @ speaker at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. A brainy fellow, we'll wager. An Englewood, Ill, man reported to the police that Charles Grouch’s dog bit him Frank James Comstock, Jeane | James Comstock and Cole Younger Comstock, of Effingham, IL. Which reminds us that F. Ray Comstock, manager of the Colonial theatre, of Cleveland, received a let ter the other day addressed to X-Ray Comstock. D'you suppose Hindenburg or Ludendorf would hesitate about shutting off the tourist travel? Neither do we. ee DID YOU KNOM— A Ballard genius has invented a telephone that doesn’t ring while you're in the bath tub, A shower bouquet for brides means the beginning of a reign. A jellyfish doésn't find it uncom. fortable to have to sleep without.a pillow or a soft mattress. A New York society man before kissing his wife has to wet his nose and rub it with ice since her pet poodle died. Would you open America's labor market to the world? Ask Dr. Steiner at the Hip- podrome next Sunday even- ing at 8:16 Fitth and University re Analysis of ; By J. W. T. Masom -:- Written for The United Pr ‘The German general staff in com-| pendent units, He would conte. , e ven sector and woul rs Mlage: dad te ten. hee Jeune his tow with all the force at campaign plana in France. Von yin \otnmand. Hindenburg is revealing the fact) ‘The division of the German re that he doean't know where Per serves between Metz and ithern whing is going to wtrike by bringing Alsace, therefore, suggests not only reserves into the sector both near that Von Hindenburg has been pux cy. but also taff is con- reet on the fast crowing Metz and near the Swiss border Keports of largé mansen of Ger man troops arriving at these points have become too persistent to be ix nied by Pershing’s strat that the German genera tent for the present to defensive against the nored. Metz and northern Alsace American strength along the Alsace re about 160 miles apart by rail, Lorraine border. The Germans never divide their) Further uneasiness in German tro! unlews there reason for it circles over the ponsibilities “ American offensive is orts that Von Hinden- by so large a distance an thin in the most imperative Division of reserves the com: nown by against @ resolute enemy i# always burg and Ludendorff are now cnak- & dangerous poliey ing their headquarters along the i Evidently Hindenburg has divided Khine. This undoubtedly means that hin forces because hi tem has been the designs of Germany is going to take no chance using second-rate commanders against the Americans enpionage nye unable to ferret out by the American chief ommand. Gen WVershing has Mar The military dictators of Ger- shal Von Hindenburg guessing, and many a:e assuming full oo | in always the first score in the themselves of Germany's defense sme. If Von Hindenburg is con- against the United Stites. They may templating ® major offensive at thin be fooling the German people with c rt the Americans, he tales of contempt for the American no circumstances: sep power Into inde ny, but they are not fooling them selves reserve INCOME TAX PUZZLES Is there something you would like to know about the income tax? Mail your question to The Star's “Income Taz” editor. Answers will be printed in The Star. QT am single and am working|cent do they figure this tax? for no much @ pee month and board. | Yes; you are exempt if you are tak | When making out my income tax ing care of her. Two per cent nor statement, do I figure what the mal tax over $1,000 for a single man, {hoard will come to and pay taxes on|in your case, 2 per cent over $2,006 that, too, or not? Can I write after | net. Inchide board. | Wie collector of in| q 2-2) T sold a house and tot tn @ G<We tercat ny Pie go ,|t as worth, account of not being — ave © apes © rent | able to look after it, on the installs — and some vacant Can the taxes 6 4 ment plan, $15 month. Do I reporg and assessments on the lots be de | e, ; this $15 in the income tax? (2) Os” ducted from the rent recetved? A-— another house I recetve rent. Are Deduct the taxes only. Local bene fits (ameesaments) are not deductible. |‘“x*. vepairs on roof, windows, _| pump, foundation, etc, deductil n dincu comme tax | in our economies class, the question |, If there was no gain, there 4 a “2 | nothing to report on income. @® pele nye haya tg Lag og Yeu; if the repairs, etc., do not consti: sieetgy pees Mle y tute permanent improvements to the me tax?” This came about thru a) 5po) Win clause in the tax, namely, “salaries, | | wages, etc. paid by states and polit:| @—T am a laborer, married. My 5 | ! ical subdivisions thereof are exempt | W4ees last year were from $60 to 870 ) from the tax and should not be re | D*T snonth. When my houses are ported.” This purried us, and we| Tented, I get $52.50 per month rent, would be very much obliged if you | but some are often vacant. Will I could clear it up for us thru your in-| ave income tax to pay? If so, tell formation bureau. A.—Salaries re-|™¢ Where to pay it I live in Kitth celved from states and political nub | t# county, Eastern Washington. A, divisions thereof are not taxable.| No return required unless your neg This includes school teachers. | income wax $2,000 for 1917. Qe who in the support of| Q—We sold a house at leas thas a gr sister, incapacitated for| cost two years ago, Are still getting work by reason of poor eyes, consid-| payments on it. Would they come lered “head of a family,” and as such | under the head of income? A—Eivk entitled to $2,000 a year exemption | dently a loss. 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Combined Resources of The Dexter Horton National Bank and The Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank $22,311,011.49 the War Moves i558 | + Joi w inte abo thet ters dur — WA queen cere s high reply £ gE Ay es g° g zg